Cant use Crystal Eye webcam on my Acer Laptop with Fedora 9

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 05 July 2008 10:48:21 Rohan Kulkarni wrote:
> Hello,
>         I have installed Fedora 9 on my Acer Aspire 4720 laptop. It
> has a Crystal Eye Webcam. But with Fedora 9 I cant use it. It is
> working fine with Windows XP. It is detected properly but doesn't
> work. I installed cheese and skype but the webcam doesn't work in
> either of them.
> gstreamer-properties shows the default video input plugin as v4l2 and
> device as Acer CrystalEye webcam but the test for the webcam fails.
> What should I do to make the webcam work?
>
This should help you

http://rafeequl.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/acer-crystaleye-webcam-on-linux-ubuntu/

Anne